John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign. He resigned after being elected Senator from South Carolina.

John Caldwell Calhoun was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. Calhoun began his political career as a nationalist, modernizer and proponent of a strong federal government and protective tariffs. In the late…